Nicker on 31/5/2023 at 12:43
Given that people are still desperate to believe utter crap with zero evidence...
[video=youtube;jzBMf6T2F_s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzBMf6T2F_s[/video]
... it is no surprise.
Cipheron on 31/5/2023 at 16:13
This video was interesting, it's about the undercurrent of fake channels masquerading as PBS Aeons type channels, to try and steal your clicks if you're looking for science content.
They mostly look to have AI generated clickbait titles and thumbnails. Those are probably generated first, then when they generate a sufficiently "people will click on that" one, a video is cobbled together with stolen footage, and even though there are dozens of such channels there are hints the same group is behind all of them.
[video=youtube;McM3CfDjGs0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McM3CfDjGs0[/video]
Nicker on 2/6/2023 at 18:29
Apparently, being aware (woke), speaking out (virtue signaling) and taking action (SJW) are all bad things. Is being aware of wokeness also woke?
Starker on 2/6/2023 at 19:21
Who knows in this age of postmodern conservatism and their weird cancel culture bullshit.
Nicker on 2/6/2023 at 20:25
Do two wokes make a wake?
Starker on 2/6/2023 at 21:13
In related not news, Utah went on a book banning spree and got the Bible banned from school libraries as a result:
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https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/06/01/bible-is-banned-these-utah/)
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The scripture was first challenged in December by a parent who wrote in their complaint that they were frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries in recent months — with conservative groups across the country and in Utah taking aim at literature they call “inappropriate,” and which has particularly focused on books written about the LGBTQ community.
So the parent submitted their request for a review of the Bible, saying it was time to remove “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”
{The solution is simple, The Tribune Editorial board writes: Remove the book bans. All of them}
“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request, listing topics they found concerning in the religious text. “You'll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors' because it's pornographic by our new definition.”
The code cited is the Utah law passed in 2022 to ban any books containing “pornographic or indecent” content from Utah schools, both in libraries and in the classroom.
Based on the new code, something is indecent if it includes explicit sexual arousal, stimulation, masturbation, intercourse, sodomy or fondling. According to state attorneys, material doesn't have to be “taken as a whole” in those situations or left on the shelf during a review. If there is a scene involving any of those acts, it should be immediately removed.
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Azaran on 8/6/2023 at 15:51
El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele has finally(
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65596471) crippled the gangs that terrorized the country, with mass arrests, and a new (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsjD6svlq_s) mega prison , apparently bringing the first significant lull in crime in decades. El Salvador was one of the world's most dangerous, gang-ravaged countries till recently
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Following a weekend of extreme gang violence in March last year, El Salvador's young and media-savvy president, Nayib Bukele, imposed a state of exception - an emergency measure under which several constitutional rights were suspended and police were granted wide-ranging powers of arrest.
Since then, some 66,000 people have been detained.
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"On a scale of one to ten, it's a twelve," jokes one local resident when asked how much calmer the neighbourhood has become over the past year. "It's incredibly quiet."
Not prepared to give his real name, such is the ingrained fear of speaking about gangs, "Joel" says his neighbourhood is unrecognisable under the tighter security conditions: "Things were so bad here before, so ugly."
"This [area] was run by the MS-13. If we went into the neighbourhood next to ours, run by the 18th Street [gang], you might never come back. Now we can come and go as we please," he added.
The government's heavy-handed approach enjoys more than 90% support with the Salvadorean public, exhausted after years of gang intimidation and extortion.
Typically, almost every news source leveled criticisms against the president, bringing up human rights violations, some even calling him a dictator (
while proposing no alternative solutions). But at some point you have to make a choice - have a semblance of 'human rights' while your country collapses under gang control, or impose a few restrictions and restore peace of mind to your law-abiding people. Extreme situations require extreme measures.
Well done El Salvador I say
demagogue on 8/6/2023 at 16:49
Hell of a marketing tactic they cooked up for this game.
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Quote Posted by Azaran
Typically, almost every news source leveled criticisms against the president, bringing up human rights violations, some even calling him a dictator (
while proposing no alternative solutions). But at some point you have to make a choice - have a semblance of 'human rights' while your country collapses under gang control, or impose a few restrictions and restore peace of mind to your law-abiding people. Extreme situations require extreme measures.
Well done El Salvador I say
Edit:
I think this is exactly backwards. Gangs don't come out of a vacuum. They form in an environment of rampant government and police corruption and ineptitude. If a regime is severe in striking down on them, as in tossing out legal control of the police, you have to see that (1) it's a band aid at best. The gangs will just come back and long as the corruption and incompetence is there; and (2) it's pouring gas on the fire in the long term, since it's making it even easier for future administrations to toss out the law, which will make the environment better for gangs in the future. Bad cops don't stop crime in the long run.
And what's this "no alternative solution"? Are El Salvadorians somehow not capable of forming stable, law-abiding and human rights respecting democracies while dealing with gang violence. Bad history and social forces makes that a challenge, but countries like Panama, Chile, and Ecuador, most of South America sans Venezuela for that matter, beg to differ.
All of that said, if you really want to fight against the drug market fueling gangs in Central and South America, easily the number one thing that needs to be done is drugs need to be legalized in the US, or rather they need to be moved from a criminal issue to a medical issue.
Edit2:
Oh also 66K people detained? No way those are all hardened killers, not even near. It's the same playbook as Trump & Duturte, and every dictator since the beginning of time. You just call your political opposition "terrorists" and "gang members" and suddenly you can imprison them with impunity and people that also hate the targeted group think you're making the country safer when literally the government is the biggest criminal in the room.
